TEUTIIIS. 140 



The shell is very like that of L. Brasiliensis (if the figure 

 given in Fer. and Orb., which I have copied, is correct), but the 

 animal is very different in its proportions. It is the narrowest 



species known in proportion to its length. 



West Indies. 



L. BLEEKERI, Keferstein. PL 57, figs. 185, 186. Animal riot 

 described. The hectocotylizecl fourth left arm and a fourth 

 right arm, as well as a shell are figured, the latter about 5 



inches in length. 



Japan. 



B. Buccal membrane without projections or suckers. 



S'.il^emis Teuthis, (Jray. 



L. MEDIA, Linn. PI. 58, figs. 1S7-1N9. 



Body subcylindrical, narrowly attenuate behind, and in the 

 adult males produced beyond the fins; fins subcordiform ; 

 sessile arms with the oblique rings armed with blunt close teeth 

 on the higher side ; tentacular arms long, the sucker rings of the 

 clubs with very close blunt teeth; siphon not valved. Shell 



lanceolate, broad, narrow in front. 



Europe. 



This species, known to Aristotle and the ancients, is highly 

 esteemed for food ; at Genoa it bears the local name of Totaneto, 

 and in Italy generally is called Calamaretto. 



Imperfectly known and doubtful species. 



L. HARTINGII, Verrill. PL 60. figs. 194. 1 ( .)5. 



Harting described in the Trans, of the Royal Acad. of Amster- 

 dam, in 1860, the buccal parts and some detached suckers of a 

 gigantic cephalopod, preserved in the Utrecht Museum ; locality 

 unknown. He erroneously identifies these fragments with Archi- 

 teulJris dux of Steenstrup, but Verrill has shown (Am. Nat., ix, 

 85) that the dentition and the cupules are those of a Loligo, for 

 which he proposes the above name. 



I figure the buccal mass and a sucker, actual size, to show the 

 unense dimensions that this creature must have attained. 



BOUYERI, Crosse and Fischer. PL 59, fig. 193. This is the 

 igantic cephalopod encountered by the French steamer Alecton, 

 ir Teneriffe, an account of which we have already given 



